Strathbogie

Distinguished and Famous people from Strathbogie

🎖️ Frederick Tubb

Frederick Tubb was born at Longwood in 1881, where his father was the local head teacher. He left school to manage the family farm and later worked land of his own. Military service took him to Gallipoli, where his leadership during the defence of a captured trench at Lone Pine earned the Victoria Cross. After wounds and illness brought him back to Australia, he persuaded a medical board he was fit to return to service. He was mortally wounded during the fighting near Ypres in 1917. Tubb Hill at Longwood and memorials in Euroa keep his connection with the district visible.

🎖️ Leslie Maygar

Leslie Maygar shared ownership of Strathearn station at Euroa with his father and brothers. A skilled horseman, he combined grazing with service in the mounted forces. During the South African War he won the Victoria Cross for rescuing a soldier whose horse had been shot: Maygar gave the man his own mount and made his escape on foot under fire. He resumed farming at Euroa before serving again in the First World War, including at Gallipoli and in Palestine. His story links the district's pastoral life with the demanding horsemanship and leadership required of mounted soldiers overseas.

🏛️ Sir John Bunting

Sir John Bunting spent part of his childhood at Longwood, where his mother’s family had settled in the nineteenth century. His own family returned there shortly after his birth, later moving to a smallholding near Benalla. Schooling and a scholarship eventually took him to university and a senior public-service career. He headed the Prime Minister’s Department and later served as Australian high commissioner in London. The local connection is personal childhood residence, rather than simply his forebears’ association. Before cabinet papers and diplomatic work, his early life included district schools, work in the family store and local sport.